After rocking the Midwest for almost 12 years together, the band Maryz Eyez finally decided to trade in the great white North for some fun in the sun. Relocating from their home state of Michigan to California, they continue to blow away new fans with amazingly energetic shows.
This 4 piece rock group goes far beyond the call of duty to keep you on your feet and entertained. After being well established in the Tri-State area (Michigan, Indiana, & Ohio), they are quickly turning heads left and right around the nation. Gaining larger and larger crowds everywhere they go, this is an up and coming band to be watched.
After playing two straight years on the Warped Tour, and currently holding in the top 10 rock bands from Detroit on Myspace, this band keeps pushing itself forward without looking back. Their songs charted #1 and #3 on XM radio channel for 4 strait months. Two national tours done and now set to embark on a College Campus Tour in 2008, they are gaining a huge fan base across the country. Signing with the record label Hitt Records out of Hollywood earlier this year, the bands Mailing List reaches people in all 50 states and 20 countries.
Maryz Eyez provides a show like no other local band. Fueled by the driving beat of an explosive drummer, Maryz Eyez brings an exhilarating show to the table, and you never know what to expect. Unlike any other band around, ALL 4 original band members sing and switch instruments throughout their sets, showing unbelievable versatility and talent.
The band still pushes out a thick dynamic sound with catchy hooks, with much emphasis on the vocals. With four part harmonies, these guys write and sing all their own original songs. A dynamic show and humble, friendly guys always willing to hang with the crowd, Maryz Eyez has one the best live shows out there, and wants nothing more than just to rock your world.
For Trenchtown, brotherhood is everything. From the first time five kids with guitars met up after school in the rural town of North Adams, MI, just some 50 miles south of Detroit, they simply followed the path laid out for them.
It was one that would take them to far-off places as well as other rural towns, still guitars in hand, providing their signature four part harmonies blended with driving punk beats and rhythmic reggae accents.
But it all began at local high school parties covering songs by Green Day, Nirvana and Sublime. “We would play as long as we could, literally all night. Ever since then, it has been impossible to escape the rock and roll lifestyle,” lead guitarist Nichols says,
Trenchtown’s music, then under the name Maryz Eyez, garnerered them 1 and 3 hits on XM radio and two spots on the Vans Warped Tour. After several years of calling the Detroit music scene home, the band decided to take their show to SoCal and relocated to Hermosa Beach to work on their self titled debut “Trenchtown EP”.
Since arriving in the same beach town which has given rise to bands such as Black Flag and Pennywise, Trenchtown has been hard at work writing songs and learning the LA music scene. Upon a chance encounter, Nichols ran into Billy Graziadei of the band Biohazard at a local Best Buy and offered up a demo.
Nine months later, the pair of Trenchtown and producer Billy Graziadei (Slipknot, Sick of it All, Biohazard) have completed the self titled EP. First track, the driving ska fueled opener, (“Ay Oh”). “We literally had this song complete,” vocalist Ryan Wagler reveals. “But Billy thought it needed some changes, one being a slight tempo increase of two BPM. Needless to say, we started over and worked all night. That’s how dedicated we all were on this project”
The six songs move from the melancholy and abstruse (“Paralyzed”) to the hook laden feel good reggae/pop of (“Unpaid Holiday”), featuring shout-it-from-the-rooftops choruses (“Let it Go”) and narratives about the wrongful conviction of an innocent man (“Murderer”).
Yet, the Trenchtown brotherhood is best conveyed live. “Our shows are no different from the house parties we started at,” Nichols says. “You rarely find us back stage, we only want to hang out with everyone before and after shows and share music during. Hope to see you there!!”
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